Cakes and Ale or The skeleton in the cupboard
About this book
Cakes and Ale is a delicious satire of London literary society between the Wars. Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected by Edward Driffield's wife to pen the official biography of her lionized novelist husband, and determined to write a bestseller. But then Kear discovers the great novelist's voluptuous muse (and unlikely first wife), Rosie. The lively, loving heroine once gave Driffield enough material to last a lifetime, but now her memory casts an embarrissing shadow over his career and respectable image.
Subjects
- authors
- authors, fiction
- authors in fiction
- authors' spouses
- authors' spouses in fiction
- biographers
- biographers in fiction
- british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- england, fiction
- england in fiction
- english fiction
- fiction
- fiction - general
- fiction, general
- married people
- married people in fiction